Jack Brooks

December 16, 2012

Guiseppe Barranco/Associated Press

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Former congressman Jack Brook's Stetson hat on display at his Celebration of Life services at the Montagne Center in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The famed congress man died Tuesday night at Baptist Hospital from a sudden illness. (Guiseppe Barranco / AP Photo)

Guiseppe Barranco/Associated Press

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Former congressman Jack Brook's Stetson hat on display at his Celebration of Life services at the Montagne Center in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The famed congress man died Tuesday night at Baptist Hospital from a sudden illness. (Guiseppe Barranco / AP Photo)